The Help Capture's Generate Document creates pages with just below the page title an image containing an image map. The image map defines so called hot spots (hyperlinks) which when clicked upon by the user move him to another location, in our case to a bookmarked control section. This is a fast and visual way if helping the user find the information he is looking for.
| Example image map from the Task Switcher generated document |
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<map id="MyMap" name="MyMap"> <img src="images/Task_Switcher_multiple_IE.png" border="0" usemap="#MyMap" /> |
The <map> tag is used to define the image-map.
An image-map is an image with clickable areas. The name
attribute is required in the map element. This attribute is associated
with the <img>'s usemap attribute and creates a
relationship between the image and the map. The map element contains a number
of area elements - in the example only one, that defines the
clickable areas in the image map. For coords the subsequent values mean left-x,
top-y, right-x, bottom-y.
Currently the help editor does not include an image map editing tool. To edit
the image map you have to switch to Code mode.
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